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tinually to the right and edging in toward the center of the disk till he 

 reached the patient, approaching her from the rear. He then laid down 

 his knife and wand and dipped his hands in the muddy water in the cup. 

 He then rubbed the sick one's back with the muddied hands. When he 

 had done this he lifted his hands skyward and sent the "sick" awav bv 



The Medicine Dancer. A Pose in the Medicine Dance. 



blowing a hissing Ijreath througli them. In like manner he placed his 

 hands on the woman's head, on her breast and on her arms. Having 

 completed his task and sent '"sick" away, lie galloped off into obscurity. 

 When the "Cheden'' had gone, chief medicine man Brigham Young 

 went and took tlie muddy cup and rubbed the woman in the same manner 

 as the "Cheden" had done before him, except that he daubed her almost 

 all over with the mud. praying continually as he did so. When he had 

 completed his dauVung. they carried the sick woman from the enclosure. 



